Last month, Sub Pop shared details on behalf of Twisted Teens new album The Holy Cross Tigers set for worldwide release on Friday, November 6th. Today, you can watch a new, wonderfully weird official video for the ribald album opener, “Stalks,” starring the band and directed by Mama Hot Dog. Watch here. 

The Holy Cross Tigers is Twisted Teens’ third album of 2026, following the acclaimed albums Blame the Clown (released on Chain Smoking Records in January) and Florida Water Blues (released on Going Underground in North America in July, and the rest of the world through Sub Pop in September).
 
Twisted Teens will resume their 2026 tour dates beginning on November 3rd in New York, with a sold-out, headlining show at The Bowery Ballroom. The band will then join their recent tourmates Kurt Vile & The Violators on their headlining run, beginning Wednesday, November 4th in Buffalo, NY, at Asbury Hall and running through Tuesday, November 24th in Baltimore, MD, at Ottobar.
 
Twisted Teens will also close out 2026 with a tour of Australia beginning Friday, December 11th, in Melbourne at Howler and ending Wednesday, December 16th, in Sydney with a sold-out show at Oxford Art Factory. The band’s December 13th date in Melbourne has also been upgraded to the larger Corner Hotel. Tickets for these shows are on sale now.
 
For regular performance and ticketing updates, please visit TwistedTeens.com.
 

 
Twisted Teens’ The Holy Cross Tigers is now available for preorder on CD/LP/CS/Digitally from Sub Pop. LP purchases in North America from the Sub Pop Mega Mart, in the EU/UK from MegaMart Europe, at the band’s live shows and from your local record store will receive the limited Loser Edition on Maroon vinyl. There is also a Bandcamp exclusive on Opaque Maroon w/Black Swirl vinyl (all vinyl colors whilst stock lasts!). Three new T-shirt designs (2 for US, 1 for EU/UK) are also available.
 
Pitchfork included the band in its “34 Most Anticipated Albums of Fall 2026” feature, and said, “Focusing on Twisted Teens’ relentless output in 2026 misses the point. Instead, track the fluidity of their strut through garage rock, country, and traditional folk; on The Holy Cross Tigers, that effortless sway of hypnotic steel guitar over shuffling drums presents like an old jukebox standard that you’re hearing for the first time. Place your trust in that timelessness. Caspian Halliwell and RJ Santos steer their New Orleans band like a pontoon boat: balanced, unadorned, and old-school in that it reinforces only the bare-bones necessities required for a good time.”
 
Read more about Twisted Teens here.

Twisted Teens
The Holy Cross Tigers
 
Tracklisting:
1. Stalks
2. When We First Met
3. Be An Angel
4. Blue Rose
5. I Spend My Time Crying
6. Blue Flower
7. I Bring
8. Look In The Mirror
9. Lock And Key
10. Figure It Out
11. Armed With A Vision
12. Every Flower
13. Darker The Night Is The Brighter I See

Today, Thursday, October 1st, 2026, Shabazz Palaces is sharing “Tongue In Chic,” a new wave R&B jam with humorous reflections on his dating life. It’s also another highlight from It’s a Style Sport, out later this month worldwide from Sub Pop. Listen here.
 
The Stranger reviewed Shabazz Palaces’ live performance of “Tongue In Chic” at their Genius Awards event last month, and said of the track: “The standout for me was the closer—a new song called “Tongue In Chic”…In the song, Butler raps coolly, ‘New girlfriend, that’s what I need,’ and goes on to regale us with his experience dating a woman who claimed to be a chef but has an empty fridge and no utensils. This song was fucking funny and cool.” 
 
“Tongue In Chic” features Shabazz Palaces’ Ishmael Butler (Vocals, Drum Machine, Keyboards), along with Gerald “Tugboat” Turner (Bass), Thaddeus “Thaddillac” Turner (Guitar, Keyboards), and album co-producer Erik Blood (Guitar).
 
Later this evening, Shabazz Palaces will host an early album listening party for Southern California fans at Los Angeles, CA’s Gold Line Bar from 6-8 PM PT. The event is open to the public, free for entry, and 21+.  Entry is first-come, first-served.

Shabazz Palaces’ It’s a Style Sport is available now to preorder on CD/LP/Digital from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK and EU, and your local record store will receive the limited Loser edition on Metallic Silver (North America) and Sparkle Starlight (EU/UK) vinyl (while supplies last).
 
It’s a Style Sport is the eighth Shabazz Palaces studio album and the first since the release of sibling mini-albums 2023’s Robed In Rareness and 2024’s Exotic Birds Of Prey.
 
It’s a bold, forthright, heavy-hitting album. Throughout, Butler compiles what he’s learned from his storied, dense career into a playful, shimmering portal, again proving himself an artist of chameleonic ambition, fuelled by curiosity, courage, and a limitless imagination. 
 
It’s a Style Sport also features guest appearances from Marquette Miller, Darrius Willrich, Evan Flory-Barnes, Kassa Overall, Carlos Overall, and the aforementioned Turner brothers. The album was produced by Shabazz Palaces and Blood, recorded at Circular Ruin Studios in Brooklyn (NY), Lake View Studios and Hall of Justice in Seattle (WA), and Parkman Labs in Los Angeles (CA).  It was mixed by Blood at Circular Ruin, and mastered by Warren Defever at Third Man Mastering in Detroit (MI).
 
Pitchfork included It’s a Style Sport in its “34 Most Anticipated Albums for Fall 2024,” and said, “Lead single ‘Ahh World (I Won The Alpha Bet)’ sets lucid social commentary to ominous beats that sound like the very dystopian future he rallies listeners to prevent; ‘Jheri Curl Jump,’ meanwhile, is a loquacious love story murmured over jittery electro-funk.”
 
More on It’s a Style Sport by Tasha Riley here.

Shabazz Palaces
It’s a Style Sport
 
Tracklisting:
1. Ahh World (I Won The Alpha Bet)
2. Field Notes
3. Show Me Missouri In Mink
4. Jheri Curl Jump
5. Deadstock Dude
6. Tongue In Chic
7. Heliocentric Immortality Manifesto H.I.M.
8. Olivia According To Touch
9. Money Can’t Save Your Mind
10. From One Future To Another